Index of English words, starting with "le"

(1) - Ledge (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
(2) - Ledge (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
(3) - Ledge (n.) A layer or stratum.
(4) - Ledge (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
(5) - Ledge (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

(1) - Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.
(2) - Ledger (n.) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
(3) - Ledger (n.) A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

(1) - Lee (a.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.
(2) - Lee (n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
(3) - Lee (n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
(4) - Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
(5) - Lee (v. i.) To lie; to speak falsely.

(1) - Leech (v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.
(2) - Leech (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
(3) - Leech (n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
(4) - Leech (n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
(5) - Leech (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
(6) - Leech (n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.
(7) - Leech (v. t.) See Leach, v. t.
(8) - Leech (n.) See 2d Leach.

(1) - Leek (n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.